Bafta TV Nominations: Russell T Davies’ ‘It’s A Sin’ And Jack Thorne’s ‘Help’ Take Six And Four Nods Apiece

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Russell T Davies’ It’s a Sin and Jack Thorne’s Help, two hard-hitting Channel 4 shows about societal issues, have dominated this year’s BAFTA TV Awards nominations, taking six and four nods apiece.Incorporating BAFTA Craft noms, which run concurrently with the TV Awards, HBO Max co-production It’s a Sin picked up 11, including for Mini-Series, Writer (Davies), five actors (Olly Alexander, Lydia West in Lead and Calum Scott Howells, David Carlyle and Omari Douglas in Supporting Actor) and in the Virgin Must-See Moment for Colin’s diagnosis.Davies’ heart-wrenching semi-biographical portrayal of the UK’s 1980s AIDS epidemic for Red Production Company has swept up at this year’s awards ceremonies and is fresh off the back of three wins at last night’s RTS Awards and two at the BPG Awards.It’s a Sin’s five performance category noms were joint with last year’s Small Axe and second only to 1985’s Jewel in the Crown, which picked up seven.Thorne’s heartwrenching care home single Help, also for Channel 4, was hot on It’s a Sin’s tail, picking up four TV nods including three in the acting categories for leads Stephen Graham and Jodie Comer and support Cathy Tyson, along with Single Drama.Thorne and Davies will battle it out in the BAFTA Craft awards for Writer: Drama, alongside Succession’s Jesse Armstrong and In My Skin’s Kayleigh Llewellyn.The main snub was BBC One/Amazon’s A Very British Scandal’s leads Claire Foy and Paul Bettany, who missed out on Leading Actor and Actress nominations in two hotly-contested categories, while managing four Craft noms.Leading Actor will be contested by Graham, Alexander and Graham’s Time co-star Sean Bean, along with Harry Potter star David Thewlis, who is nominated for Sky’s Landscapers, Hugh